Proverbs 16:26
A laboring man has labored for himself, || For his mouth has caused [him] to bend over it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
In Context
25There is a way right before a man, || And its latter end—ways of death.
27A worthless man is preparing evil, || And on his lips [is] as a burning fire.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:12If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, || And you have scorned—you bear [it] alone.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labor of man [is] for his mouth, || And yet the soul is not filled.
2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat bread of anyone for nothing, but in labor and in travail, working night and day, not to be chargeable to any of you;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:26
Malice and Envy. 25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. This we had before ( ch. xiv. 12 ), but here it is repeated, as that which is very necessary to be thought of, 1. By way of caution to us all to take heed of deceiving ourselves in the great concerns of our souls by resting in that which seems right and is not really so, and, for the preventing of a self-delusion, to be impartial in self-examination and keep up a jealousy over ourselves. 2. By way of terror… Read the whole commentary →